Butades

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L'origine de la peinture by Jean-Baptiste Regnault , 1785
The invention of drawing by Joseph-Benoît Suvée , 1791
The invention of painting by Eduard Daege , 1832

Butades , the older version of Dibutades , was an ancient Greek artist from Sicyon , to whom the invention of the clay relief and plastic front tiles were ascribed.

Butades is said to have come up with the idea of ​​producing clay reliefs when he filled in a silhouette painted by his daughter on the wall with clay and then burned the resulting relief with other pottery. The resulting work is said to have been in the Nymphaeum of Corinth until the city of 146 BC. Was destroyed. In addition to the invention of the clay relief, the coloring of the clay through the addition of red earth and the invention of antefixes, which are decorated with masks and figures, were attributed to him. The figures are said to have been applied to the bricks as prostypa as well as carved out of the clay mass as ectypa .

Butades Myth in the Arts

The following chronological list is based on the study of Robert Rosenblum "The Origin of Painting" and the critical extension of the same by George Levitine. For more works see Andor Pigler: Baroque Themes . Unless otherwise stated, the respective works are paintings.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Plin. nat. it. Jan / Mayhoff (1892–1909) ad 35.43.
  2. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 35,43. Available in English translation in the Perseus project: Plin. Nat. 35.43 .
  3. ↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 35, 151; Isidore of Seville , Origines 20, 4, 3.
  4. ^ Robert Rosenblum: "The Origin of Painting. A Problem in the Iconography of Romantic Classicism ", in: The Art Bulletin Vol. 39, No. 4, 1957, pp. 279-290. Rosenblum thinks that the iconographic tradition of the Butade legend begins with Runciman (1771). Levitine started earlier with Charles Le Brun (before 1676) and Charles-Nicolas Cochi (1769). See George Levitine: “Addenda to Robert Rosenblum's 'The Origin of Painting…'”, in: The Art Bulletin Vol. 40, No. 4, 1958, pp. 329–331.
  5. ↑ Andor Pigler: Baroque themes. A selection of directories on iconography of the 17th and 18th centuries , Volume 2, Budapest and Berlin 1956, p. 335.
personal data
SURNAME Butades
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Βουτάδες (ancient Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Greek artist
DATE OF BIRTH around 7th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 7th century BC Chr.